Memorial Trends: Popular Memorial Enhancements & Customizations

At Sunburst, we take pride in offering completely custom memorials, believing that families should have the opportunity to craft lasting tributes that genuinely reflect their personal experiences and cherished memories. Today, more families seek innovative and unique ways to personalize their tributes. So, let’s explore some of the latest trends in memorial design.

Introducing Elements

There are many unique ways to enhance your memorial. Incorporating other mediums, like porcelain portraits, bronze pieces, and glass, can be an interesting enhancement to texture and add will unique design aspects that complement the memorial and the individual’s unique preferences.

Unique Shapes and Styles

Traditionally, uniform, rectangular headstones, and grave markers have been the commonly chosen shapes for memorials. Today, however, you can create unique shapes and artistic designs that capture the personality and favorite hobbies of yourself or your loved one. Memorials can take on various forms, like heart-shaped stones and abstract sculptures, evoking a specific memory or passion. Sunburst Memorials provides families with the opportunity to collaborate on custom design, resulting in something that feels personal and unique.

Custom Sculpted Pieces

Beyond a custom shape, creating a sculpture that embodies the life of your loved one has been a growing trend. Here at Sunburst Memorials, we have talented designers who can design 3D rendered sculpted pieces to bring a unique idea to life. After the rendering, a mini sculpted clay model is sometimes provided to show the details of the piece and ensure the piece is created with your loved one in mind, so you can approve the concept with full visual confidence.

Personalized Engravings and Inscriptions

Personalized engravings and inscriptions have always been a staple of memorial design, but the trend is shifting toward more creative and meaningful expressions. Families are choosing to include their favorite quotes, special poems, or personal messages with their own handwriting samples or custom fonts that reflect their loved one’s personality. Others are choosing to include etchings based on personal photos of a favorite place or hobby. At Sunburst, we work closely with you to ensure that every engraving captures the essence of the story being told. Like many traditions, the world of memorial design is constantly evolving. Many people are branching out from what has been done in the past and enhancing memorial designs with details that better capture the unique essence of their loved ones. At Sunburst Memorials, we embrace the importance of full customization, empowering families to create memorials that resonate deeply with their personal stories and memories.